[Cryptography] Dells are shipping with a rogue root level CA cert

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:57:05 -0500 "Perry E. Metzger"
<perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> It seems that, not having learned from Lenovo's experience, Dell has
> started shipping laptops with a Dell provided CA cert
> pre-installed. 
> 
> http://www.techworm.net/2015/11/dell-pcs-laptops-ship-with-edellroot.html
> 
> It is unclear what the CA is for, but there's a good possibility it
> isn't good...

New development:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/dell-apologizes-for-https-certificate-fiasco-provides-removal-tool/

Perry
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